Plug and imeem Partner for Plug City Highlights Tour, 2007 Plug Independent Music Awards

As the official online social media sponsor for Plug Awards, imeem will use its innovative digital media features to bring nominee information and local band content to voters and fans. imeem and Plug Awards have teamed up for the nationwide Plug City Highlights Tour and the 2007 Plug Independent Music Awards at Irving Plaza in New York City on February 10, 2007.

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 22, 2006 -- imeem and Plug Awards are teaming up for the nationwide Plug City Highlights Tour and the 2007 Plug Independent Music Awards at Irving Plaza in New York City on February 10, 2007. As the official online social media sponsor for Plug Awards, imeem will use their innovative digital media features to bring nominee information and local band content to voters and fans. Both Plug Awards and imeem share the vision of discovering independent music and helping fans to interact directly with these up-and-coming artists.

The Plug Independent Awards is an annual event where music fans worldwide log onto http://www.plugawards.com and vote for their favorite music artists, albums, record labels, magazines, websites/blogs, record stores, radio stations, and venues. In the coming weeks, fans will be able to check out the Plug meem at http://plug.imeem.com to listen, watch, comment and rate the nominees through featured pictures, music and video for all categories. Through January 26th, fans can view and vote for this year's 2007 nominees at http://plugawards.com/general_vote.php. This year's best album of the year nominees include: Band of Horses, Beirut, Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, J Dilla, Joanna Newsom, Neko Case, Silversun Pickups, The Hold Steady, and The Knife.

We're excited to bring fans and voters closer to the independent musicians nominated for the Plug Awards, and to also help local bands and fans get truly involved and participate in the Plug City Highlights Tour.

Leading up to the Plug Awards ceremony is the Plug City Highlights Tour, with upcoming stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Detroit. Successful events have already occurred in Brooklyn, Miami, Austin and Toronto earlier this year. The mission of these events is to give an outlet to the thousands of music fans whose voices aren't regularly heard, but whose own local indie music scenes are vibrant and established. These all-local shows highlight the best up-and-coming bands, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers, blogs, zines and more. During the tour, Plug and imeem will highlight the uniqueness of each city and amplify recognition and support for their scenes and the people who make them shine.

Plug and imeem are hosting contests to give one up-and-coming band in each city a chance to open up for the Plug City Highlights Tour. Bands will create a profile and submit an original song to the PLUG 'meem' (for the uninitiated, that's a group area within the imeem.com online community). Artists headlining the show will judge the top rated songs and one lucky winner will be chosen to perform. For more information, please visit: http://plug.imeem.com/

"imeem is proud and very excited to be the online social media partner for Plug, an influential voice in the independent music scene," said Steve Jang, vice president of marketing and business development, imeem. "We're excited to bring fans and voters closer to the independent musicians nominated for the Plug Awards, and to also help local bands and fans get truly involved and participate in the Plug City Highlights Tour."

"Plug and imeem are committed to supporting independent artists, media and venues," said Gerry Hart, founder of the Plug Awards. "We intend to utilize this partnership with imeem to bring awareness and interactivity to its artists and in particular to those nominated for awards this year. With imeem, fans will soon be able to preview PLUG nominees' music before submitting their final votes. In addition, through our group, users can also learn about the best local bands in Brooklyn, Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Francisco."

Plug City Highlights Tour Information:

• Plug Brooklyn, Syrup Room, Friday, November 17, 2006
• Plug Detroit, Magic Stick, Thursday, November 30, 2006.
• Plug Los Angeles, January 12, 2006
• Plug San Francisco, January 19, 2006

Website: http://www.imeem.com

About Plug Independent Awards
Founded in 2001, with the first live event having launched 2004, The Plug Awards are different from all of the institutional accolades for the music industry such as the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, GRAMMY Awards, Teen Choice Awards, MTV Music Awards, etc. Those are all devoted to recognizing the mainstream hits. Very rarely do these awards honor, let alone embrace, independent music or the community of artists and fans who now represent nearly 30% of the global music market with $3.5 billion in market capitalization. This is a community that thinks for itself and doesn't take its cues from mainstream media or marketing.

PLUG is about the independent music community coming together to recognize our own. This includes everyone from writers, DJs, websites, bloggers, artists, filmmakers, managers, indie retailers, and most importantly fans - who gather together each year to celebrate the artists who live and flourish in the margins. PLUG is about the artists who inspire and the music that disrupts the artistic and corporate mediocrity and inertia that dominates our culture. The film industry has Sundance, the music industry has PLUG.

Plug Media Contact: Roberta Moore Public Relations 919-321-8246
Imeem Media Contact: Danielle Valente, Bite PR, 415-284-8282

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